Janusz Janowski

Who is Janusz Janowski?

Janusz Janowski is a Polish painter, jazz drummer, art theorist, since 2006 president of the Gdańsk Branch of the Association of Polish Painters and Designers, co-creator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award. He has been related for most of his artistic life with the city of Gdańsk.

Janowski studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and graduated in 1994. A prominent activist of the cultural life in the region, he initiated a series of annual exhibitions entitled Ocalić od zapomnienia, presenting output of the local painters, and took part in many group and individual expositions of his own artwork. He co-founded an artistic group "Stowarzyszenie Malarzy". Janowski was also co-editor of the Polish edition of Donald Kuspit's book The End of Art, which accompanied the art exhibition New Old Masters in National Museum in Gdańsk in 2006.

From the 1980s until early 2000s Janowski performed as a musician, with a notable participation in the European Projects for Young Artists - Germinations Europe and as a member of a jazz band European Sextett, consisting of Polish, French and German musicians.